Countries
China, Nepal
  
Israel
  
National Language
Nepal, Tibet
  
Israel
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Israel
  
Speaking Continents
Asia
  
Africa, Asia, Europe
  
Minority Language
China, India, Nepal
  
Poland
  
Regulated By
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language
  
Academy of the Hebrew Language
  
Interesting Facts
- Tibetan dialects vary alot, so it's difficult for tibetans to understand each other if they are not from same area.
- Tibetan is tonal with six tones in all: short low, long low, high falling, low falling, short high, long high.
  
- The original language of Bible is Hebrew.
- The men and women use different verbs in hebrew language.
  
Similar To
Not Available
  
Arabic and Aramaic languages
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Aramaic Language
  
Alphabets in
Tibetan-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Hebrew-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
How Many Vowels
0
  
Scripts
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
  
Hebrew
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)
  
שלום (Shalom)
  
Thank You
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)
  
תודה (Toda)
  
How Are You?
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས།
(kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)
  
מה שלומך? (ma shlomxa)
  
Good Night
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
  
לילה טוב (Laila tov)
  
Good Evening
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
  
ערב טוב (Erev tov)
  
Good Afternoon
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
  
אחר צהריים טובים (Achar tzahara'im tovim)
  
Good Morning
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
  
בוקר טוב (Boker tov)
  
Please
thu-je zig / ku-chee.
  
בבקשה (bevekshah)
  
Sorry
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
  
סליחה! (Slicha)
  
Bye
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
  
להתראות (Lehitraot)
  
I Love You
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
  
אני אוהבת אותך (Ani ohevet otcha)
  
Excuse Me
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
  
בבקשה!
  
Dialect 1
Central Tibetan
  
Ashkenazi Hebrew
  
Where They Speak
China, India, Nepal
  
Israel
  
How Many People Speak
1,200,000.00
  
27
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
Khams Tibetan
  
Samaritan Hebrew
  
Where They Speak
Bhutan, China
  
Israel, Palestine
  
How Many People Speak
1,400,000.00
  
23
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Amdo Tibetan
  
Yemenite Hebrew
  
Where They Speak
China
  
Israel
  
How Many People Speak
1,800,000.00
  
16
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
1.20 million
  
99+
9.00 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
1.20 million
  
99+
4.40 million
  
99+
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
  
5.60 million
  
27
Native Name
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)
  
עברית / עִבְרִית (ivrit)
  
Alternative Names
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
  
Israeli, Ivrit
  
French Name
tibétain
  
hébreu
  
German Name
Tibetisch
  
Hebräisch
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
[(ʔ)ivˈʁit] - [(ʔ)ivˈɾit]
  
Ethnicity
tibetan people
  
Not Available
  
Origin
c. 650
  
1000 BC
  
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
  
Afro-Asiatic Family
  
Subgroup
Tibeto-Burman
  
Semitic
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Canaanitic
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
  
Biblical Hebrew, Mishnaic Hebrew, Medieval Hebrew, Hebrew
  
Standard Forms
Standard Tibetan
  
Modern Hebrew
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Tibetan Sign Language
  
Signed Hebrew
  
Scope
Not Available
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
bo
  
he
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
bod
  
heb
  
ISO 639 2/B
tib
  
heb
  
ISO 639 3
bod
  
heb
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
tibe1272
  
hebr1246
  
Linguasphere
No data Available
  
12-AAB-a
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Not Available
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
  
Subject-Verb-Object, Verb-Subject-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
  
Fusional, Synthetic